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The History of Law in Europe - An Introduction (Paperback)
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'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons''
that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and
Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal
system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauters and Marco
de Benito offer us a fresh overview of the history of law in
Europe, dealing with both civil and common law, from Roman times
through to its codification. This book is a stimulating, lucid, and
imaginative read.' - Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of
Pennsylvania, US Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a
concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe,
from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It
situates law in the wider framework of Europe's political,
economic, social and cultural developments. Offering a readily
graspable and sound structure, chapters are organized according to
the civil law systems and common law systems. Each chapter is built
around the evolution of the four sources of the law: legal science,
legislation, courts and customary law, set chronologically against
the relevant historical context. Throughout this in-depth
presentation of the key determinants in European legal history,
Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito allow readers to understand how
the law arose and evolved in Europe as a shared language, of which
its different national laws are but dialectal expressions - with
the unique exception, perhaps, of English common law, whose
peculiarity is likewise due to accidents of history which are
themselves explored. With its elegant comparative approach, this
book will appeal to European Law students and scholars looking for
a concise, yet academically sound, account of the history of law in
Europe.
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